After Sid and Ronald Perelman reached a verbal agreement, the two negotiators quickly reached an agreement on the main deal, and after some final details, Ronald Perelman and Sid officially signed a deal with Marvel Comics. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ronald Perelman threw away the toughest hot potato, while Sid got a seed that swept the future. But now, his first task is to restore this mess that was originally bankrupt and listed.

"What do you think, Mr. Stan Lee. Sid smiled and asked the almost legendary old man with sunglasses on the other side.

Stan Lee, anyone who is familiar with the history of American comics, cannot fail to know him. It can be said that in modern times, the history of Marvel Comics is the history of Stan Lee. He can be said to have single-handedly created almost all of Marvel's signature superheroes, "Spider-Man", "Fantastic Four", "Iron Man", "Hulk", "Thor", "X-Men", "Doctor Strange", "Daredevil".

"So, you're trying to reconvene your former cartoonists and start drawing comics again?" Stan Lee said, biting his pipe, his expression skeptical.

"Yes and no. Sid said with a smile.

"What do you mean?" Stan Lee wondered.

"I did want to rebuild Marvel's comics department, but given the big business mistakes of the early '90s, I would have put in place a strict quality review system. At the same time, in addition to the traditional superhero comics, I also need some people to draw some children's comics. Sid explained.

"Children's comics, you mean picture books?" Stan Lee asked, surprised.

"Pretty much, I have some children's novels, but a lot of young children don't have that much literacy, so I think it's a direction to try to make those novels picture books. Sid nodded.

"Then I could go back to Marvel as a consultant, or I could recruit some artists and screenwriters to reorganize the comics department, but ......" Stan Lee put down his pipe and tapped, pausing to say, "Marvel movies are divided into ......"

Sid couldn't help but laugh at Stan Lee's words, knowing that the shrewd old man would definitely mention this, "You know, let's be realistic. I know that you signed a 10% share agreement with Marvel back then. But let me be honest, it's impossible. ”

"You!" Stan Lee's beard glared at once.

Sid smiled and stretched out his hand to reassure him: "No studio in Hollywood will accept this agreement, not even Schwarzenegger and Tom Cruise." And then you can go to court and sue me, and then I can transfer it to another company to make Marvel movies, and Marvel is just renting the character rights for free. In that case, you won't get a penny, and it's perfectly legal. ”

Sid's words only made Stan Lee even angrier, and he glared angrily, "Then what do you want, boy!"

Sid smiled and said a new agreement: "Or on the contrary, we can make a new contract, and in the future, Marvel's superhero movie box office, as long as the box office exceeds $500 million, I will pay you a dividend of up to $5 million." If the box office is below this standard, it will be reduced accordingly at the ratio of $100 million box office = 10%. What do you think of that?"

Stan Lee pondered for a moment, then slammed his pipe and said, "Okay, I accept it." ”

After getting Stan Lee, Marvel's creative team finally recovered its vitality. After finally sorting out Marvel's affairs, Marvel's day-to-day management and operations were handed over to the professional team sent by COO Shirley to receive it.

At the same time, the production lines of its peripherals and toys were drawn out and merged into the Fire Lion Group to establish its own production capacity of physical peripherals, laying the foundation for future films with peripheral development potential such as "Harry Potter".

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"So you're Barry Weiss?" Sid looked at the middle-aged man in front of him with a smile, and the other party writhed uncomfortably in his calm and powerful eyes.

"Yes, I'm Barry. The middle-aged man straightened his waist and struggled to maintain his majestic appearance.

"Take it easy, I don't bite. Sid said jokingly, which made the other party secretly relieved.

"Then do you know why I came to you?" Sid asked.

"Is it about Jive's business model after Jive Records?" asked Barry Weiss tentatively.

Barry Weiss is the CEO of Jive Records, Sid's most recent acquisition from Sony, and as a company that created the Backstreet Boys, Jive has been lackluster in other ways, but around 2000, he had a surprising grasp of this wave of teen idol music.

"There are reasons for this, but not only that, but let's introduce someone to you first. Sid pointed to the fat blonde man next to him.

"Of course I know Mr. Martin. "Jeve Records and Max Martin are in a partnership, and it's not surprising that Barry Weiss knows him, but what makes Barry Weiss wonder is why Max Martin is here today when he meets Sid, the owner of the Fire Lion Group.

"Hello Barry. Max Martin smiled and nodded.

"Here's the thing......" Sid said succinctly, explaining to each other that he and Max Martin were envisioning a new record label.

"Is this a complete separation of management and music production, but will this cause operational problems?" Barry Weiss pondered for a moment, trying to dispel Sid's "whimsical" plan, "Each record label has its own unique operating model, and in this way, the most effective promotion and publicity methods can be adopted, and it will be difficult for a unified head office to arrange the publicity and activities of its various sub-labels with different styles." ”

"Heh, you misunderstood. Sid raised his finger and smiled, "What I'm talking about is not the unified arrangement of the head office, but the design of publicity and activities by each sub-label, and then the headquarters will send personnel and resources to help each sub-label carry out business activities other than creation." ”

"In other words, the head office is not dominant, but the sub-labels?" Barry Weiss was surprised, this way of completely opposite the current pyramid of record labels is absolutely unheard of.

"That's good!" Sid laughed and held up his fingers, "I call this model the 'inverted pyramid,' where the executives of the company who were originally high above had to be transformed into service providers, providing a full range of services to the sub-labels that lead the music creation. ”

"Is this possible?" asked Barry Weiss, with a cool breath.

"It's not so much about whether it's feasible as it's about the general trend. Sid smiled.

In fact, this new organizational model was not created by Sid, but came from a well-known multinational company in later generations - Uniqlo.

Uniqlo's headquarters + store model is similar to the management form of the record industry. In the global financial turmoil of 2008, UNIQLO, as a traditional company, was able to grow against the trend. M, ZARA together have become the bright spots of the global apparel industry, and definitely benefit from this new management model.

Let the headquarters change from a high-level manager to a full-service provider, and let the stores that can have direct contact with consumers take the lead in the operation, and use the flexible and easy-to-turn foundation of each store. Experiment with new business activities and product trends, and if feasible, quickly promote them to stores around the world, and then gain economies of scale.

And with this model, it can also be perfectly integrated with the sales model of iTune digital music in the future, without having to be complacent because of the huge and bloated redundancy like the old big record labels.

"So, what do I need to do?" Barry Weiss, after listening to Sid's explanation, realized that he, who specializes in management, no longer seems to have a place in Jive Records under Sid's new system. After all, from now on, Jive Records will become a studio-like music production studio, so what about the management of the Jive Records division in Manhattan?

Sid saw that the other party quickly changed his mentality, but nodded in surprise, "It's very simple, I need you to take the current management team of Jive Records out and reorganize it into 'Fire Lion Records'." ”

Sid's words immediately made Barry Weiss think about it, "...... that" Jive's management team became Fire Lion Records, so he's the CEO?

"Of course, that's the first thing I'm going to say today, Barry, I want you to be the CEO of Fire Lion Records, how about it?" Sid's words made Barry Weiss excited, he held back his excited hands, barely raised his head and said, "Of course, no problem. ”

“Good。 Sid nodded, then cocked up his fingers, "Then the first thing you need to do is to establish the foundation of our new corporate system, and Max [Martin] will be the music director of Fire Lion Records, and he will be responsible for the creation of all the sub-labels." ”

Sid's words immediately stunned Barry Weiss, who was a little uncomfortable with the music director in charge of the sub-label, and his nominal CEO being only a servant.

But that's not all, "and you're going to Los Angeles later, and our COO of the Fire Lion Group, Shirley Sandberg, will hand over the next plans and developments to you." ”

Up and down!

This made Barry Weiss feel angry for a while, and he was still not trusted, and Sid casually planted two of his own henchmen on his side, which made him feel like he was being watched.

Sid smiled slightly and looked at Barry Weiss, who was in chaos, and said: "Just as the headquarters of Fire Lion Records will be a service provider in the future, our headquarters will also support Fire Lion Records. You don't need to worry too much about this, but the direction of Fire Lion is not to be missed, and Shirley's team is mainly to ensure this. ”

Sid's sweet dates and sticks made Barry Weiss's heart calm down a little.